Gray-and-Grey Morality: The conflict between Evgard and the Mereish.Black-and-Gray Morality: Michael and Argent may both have betrayed their friends, but their enemies are a homophobic bully and a sadistic rapist, respectively.Armoured Closet Gay: Michael suggests that this is why Shipley likes to pick on gay and effeminate students.
Annoying Younger Sibling: Luke, Francis's brother who dislikes Michael, to disastrous consequences. He only told Shipley that Francis is gay as a revenge, but it turns out to be true. Accidental Truth: Michael's lies about Francis. The book alternates between Michael and Francis lives in reality (in third person, in Michael's POV) and in the Evgard from Michael's imagination (in first person), where they're known as Argent and Columen, a slave and the Duke's son, involved in an ongoing war between their peoples. Fearing that Francis has betrayed him and their secret, Michael decides to take revenge. Until, of course, Michael gets an anonymous note in his locker saying I KNOW WHERE ARCASTER IS. Both boys keep their world hidden safely in a locked box, in the form of maps and poems. 
Francis is a cool and tall redhead who, instead of making fun on him, joins Michael in a game of make-believe, creating a fantasy land called Evgard and its capital, Arcaster. The incident - and his mother's inaction in the face of it - makes it hard for him to trust people again, but this changes when he meets Francis. After being bullied, Michael changes schools.
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